What is CVE-2017-8314?

CVE-2017-8314 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kodi, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-05-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-8314?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Kodi

CVE-2017-8314

Directory Traversal in Zip Extraction built-in function in Kodi 17.1 and earlier allows arbitrary file write on disk via a Zip file as subtitles.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2017-05-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (84.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-08.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Kodi
Xbmc Foundation Kodi (Xbmc) — versions <= v17.1
Debian Linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-17 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/12024 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98668 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00019.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8314?: CVE-2017-8314 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kodi, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-8314?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.